thanks for the hint but I had the SDK already installed. I followed exactly the advices from the link above but still got the same error message. After fiddling around some hours :-(, and reading newsgroups I created two new Win environment variables and now it works.
I do not quite understand why you were so unlucky about the variables. What I did was always the 'Note' method in http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ . Namely, Note: Alternatively, you can update the Visual C++ Directories by modifying the VCProjectEngine.dll.express.config file located in the \vc\vcpackages subdirectory of the Visual C++ Express install location. Please make sure that you also delete the file "vccomponents.dat" located in the "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VCExpress\8.0" if it exists before restarting Visual C++ Express Edition. Anyway, I will apply your patch. Bo
